All Natural Whole Tagua Nuts from Ecuador | Fair Trade ...
Tagua nut is a rainforest nut known as vegetable ivory for its likeness to animal ivory. These are seeds that grow in pods called cabezas, from the tagua nut palm tree. Tagua''s smooth, hard texture is an ideal medium for carving jewelry, boxes and other figurines or using the whole seed as beads for necklaces and bracelets. Naya Nayon, an Ecuadorbased NGO, counters .